The Muslim city of Harar is well known for its high quality basketry, and many craft products of the Muslim minority relate to wider Islamic decorative traditions.

When he composed a series of landscapes in the decorative tradition of Hubert Robert, he included incongruous groups of Michelangelesque figures.

The works of David Ozeransky (Agam) continued the decorative tradition of Ze'ev Raban.

The Koran's prohibition against graven images has channeled the artistic energies of Islamic peoples into a staggeringly inventive decorative tradition.

Skylands Manor, Ringwood The great manor house at Skylands represents the happy marriage of European architectural and decorative traditions with an early 20th-century fortune.

Despite these commonalities, the various Rio Grande traditions are only loosely related; the common thread is that each group of potters pursued variations on the regional black-on-white decorative tradition.

The majority of the decorative traditions used in the Early Islamic Period concerned the manipulation of the glass itself, and included trail-application, carving, and mold-blowing (Israeli 2003, 320).

More recently, a cluster of ornamental corn hung on or near the front door has become a decorative tradition much the same as lights strung on trees and shrubs at Christmas time.

The reliefs' style shows a blend of influences including other Near Eastern cultures, Roman, and Byzantine decorative traditions.

In either argument, it is seen that local influences such as materials, history and decorative traditions brought about distinctive regional characteristics.